In a striking break from its recent steady stream of divided opinions, last week the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion making a dramatic change in the level...

Recently, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC replaced its 1998 Compliance Manual section on retaliation, issuing its final Enforcement Guidance on Retaliation and Related Issues.

Can an employer be held liable under Title VII when it fires an employee based on a good faith belief that she falsely accused another employee of sexual harassment — even if that belief may have been based upon a mistake of fact?

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) generally prohibits covered employers from discriminating against employees or applicants...

The U.S. Department of Labor issued a Final Rule increasing the minimum salary level for employees otherwise exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standard Act...

Blockchain has been compared to the early days of the Internet: nearly everyone believes that it's a world-changing technology with tremendous potential, but no-one can predict who the ultimate winners will be or what impacts they will have.

With the rise in health insurance costs and changing work demographics, employers nationwide are considering innovative benefit designs that are intended to not only contain costs but also provide...

The ongoing legal battle over the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Final Rule changing the definitions of "companionship services" and live-in domestic employees again turned against employers on August 21, 2015.

The final ADA regulations generally follow the proposed regulations discussed in our May 2015 Employer Alert, avoiding the threat in the proposed regulations of more burdensome administrative requirements in the final rule.

It is often said that consistent application of an employer's work rules is one of the best ways to avoid liability for discrimination claims.

Effective February 11, 2018, employers in Maryland with 15 or more employees are required to provide paid job-protected sick and safe leave to eligible employees, and employers with 14 or fewer employees ...

On February 9, 2018, Congress passed the amended Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018. This Act contained provisions impacting retirement plans.

Last May, we reported on a False Claims Act (FCA) case pending in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals regarding a claim brought in the U.S. District Court in South Carolina against a network of 24 nursing home providers (collectively, "Agape").

IRS Revokes Hospital's Exemption Under Section 501(C)(3) for Failure to Comply with Community Health Needs Assessment Requirements

In early February, the IRS issued "an urgent alert" concerning the latest version of the phishing scam that targets W-2 payroll information.

Until recently, it appeared that most smart product reverse engineering efforts would retain protected status.

​Pokémon Go is an augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a Google affiliate) and Nintendo. Players navigate real world locations capturing and training virtual "Pokémon" creatures with their iOS and Android smartphones.

Ireland was recently stunned with the news that Apple owed it 13 billion euros it did not want. The underlying tax arrangement was relatively straightforward:

​Ireland was recently stunned with the news that Apple owed it 13 billion euros it did not want.

In 2020, North Carolina passed a temporary law authorizing Emergency Video Notarization ("EVN") to alleviate the requirement that notaries be in the physical presence of signers during the COVID-19 pandemic.